Anyone For Tea? Mingary, South Australia, Australia
By farmer--brown on 21-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3QY99

Found with RM Log wet. Added paperSignedTFTC

We were nervous when see first saw this location. We have a hide at a similar facility. Fortunately this was much easier than ours! TFTC Brad and Janet are on another epic trip. This time across South Australia to Broken Hill. Then through central and Northern NSW and up into Qld where we will be picking up a new hybrid house-on-wheels. Then we will head south down through more of NSW via Sydney to catch up with B2. Then further south until we get into Victoria from where we will head back into South Australia. Along the way we will grab caches of opportunity.

Thanks for the cashe

A lot of fun found it just before we left!

Making our way towards home over the next few weeks travelling with 2 dogs and a cat we have found caching a great way to give the fur babies a break. Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining.

Thanks for the cache

Thanks for the find there is something else placed there that I thought mightve been it very funny

Tftc, with Turnarounds cheers

Quick find with KLCED. Nice overnight stop over the other side of the railway line. Tftc

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Another day traveling west. First find in SA. Thanks Farmer Brown for the hide, nice and easy.

Our #26. Yes Ill have tea, thank you. TFTC

Quick find, interesting structure, TFTC

Quick grab on the away past.Just GavTFTC

Stop with Camper at the "Team Spot"

Grabbed this cache as we were passing by. We've seen a lot of these old water tanks along our travels. Tftc

Adding another find on the way to Broken hillTFTC

This was the second find for bunadoorian and I today. bunadoorian was the first to find this cache. So many places to look!! I am currently chasing new LGA's for a challenge cache in SA. TFTC and for bringing us here farmer--brown.

A nice hide but there's plenty of opportunities around here. TFTC.

We are one our way to Adelaide for the leap Year Mega. After an early start from our overnight accommodation, we set off to find the caches on our target list.All caches were found and signed as "5 for QLD" for our traveling group of hatzofff (myself), RoddyC, Imbunda, Snickersallan and grannysmith1947.Our fifth day on the road and we finally reach South Australia, heading to our overnight before tomorrow's huge effort on the On You Bike caches.

An early morning start after our overnight stay. I am traveling with my friends, hatzofff, RoddyC, Snickersallan and grannysmith1947. We are signing all logs as "5 for QLD" to save space.All caches were found, signed and replaced as foundToday we will finally arrive in South Australia. I am quite excited - first time here.

TFTC smile 18450 Out and about on a lovely day Having a great time finding a few caches heading to Adelaide for a few weeks then on our way to Canberra . Signing as 5 for QLD - Hatzofff Snickersallan RoddyC Imbunda. What a great team we made and lots of laughter and funThank you farmer--brown for placing this cache for our enjoyment [:X]

A Leap Year Mega draws us to Adelaide. Today's our intrepid group arrives in South AustraliaWe are using the Acronym 6 for QLD to sign the log sheets.Most of the caches this day were nice quick finds.And so happily I say that the logs were signed and caches replaced as found on this day, 27th February 2024. TFTC, farmer--brown.

Quick park n grab

Found

Continuing my adventure, this morning I headed west to try to find a cache in another LGA. This was the cache I was aiming for. I was able to park the geomobile right next to GZ. A quick search and the cache was in hand. With my name added to the log and everything returned as found, I continued on my way. TFTC

This would have been an excellent place for tea if I had any. A cache would have to do instead. Log very wet but managed to gently scribe my name. TFTC

QOGM adventure - I was able to catch a ride with Muff1 who were heading to the event and team up for 3 weeks of caching adventures. 3 weeks in a swag - will my back hold out[?]Day 1: Leaving from my home in the Adelaide hills we made it out through the rain all the way to the New South Wales Border. We set uS 19 16.793 E 146 44.334 camp at Cockburn for the night. Only two caches found todayn but we outran the rain!A quick stop to break the drive. A nice quick find too. **SAs Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. - BOING*****Thanks farmer--brown for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Freight train went past. Going to Whyalla by the look of the empty steel wagobss. Got a toot. Tyftc

Nice quick stop on our trip from WA to QLD and back to pick up our caravan and grab a few sneaky caches on the way.

Little confused with the baby toy/rubbish left here but quick find at gz.

Thank you farmer--brown for placing and maintaining Anyone for Tea? for us and others to find and enjoy.

Found on the first day of my Eastern Adventure. TFTC

Muggle after muggle after muggle at this place. One would leave and the next would arrive. Eventually they all went and managed to find the elusive a little blighter . However, was rewarded with a train going past. TFTC

We really enjoyed searching for this cache. When we pulled up
two couples were having a Cuppa and wanted to know what we
were up to. We explained and they all started searching with us.
It was one of the ladies who found it and was very proud of her
self. She can't wait to tell her grandchildren about this wonderful
new activity they can all do together.

Thanks farmer--brown

Little Squirell

Found with Coybear2000 on our way to Burra. We parked nearby and walked to the tower. After some minutes, C found the sneaky hide. Log signed and all replaced and we continued on our way. I'll have mine black, no sugar. TFTC.

Heading west with Trodectus. Pulled over and a short walk to GZ. After short search had CIH. Log signed and returned. TFTC

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Ocw the Bebes. Took a fair bit longer than it should have in this heat! Found eventually. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin

Towing the caravan to Broken Hill, geodog Peppa and geocat Levin travelling with us.

Spotted a few of these on the journey, nice to get up close for one.

Really well hidden, it took a few passes before I spotted it.

Tftc

We are on our way to the Rutherglen Mega. Today's journey takes us from Broken Hill to Peterborough. When we first arrived in Broken Hill the Caravan Park was packed as the races were on, but today with high temperatures expected soon, the CP looked deserted! We had a good time in Broken Hill but our departure was not smooth. Our pump on our water in the camper had not worked since Qld. As we were filling up with diesel, a great flush of water cascaded down giving the attendant a fright. We must have a connection problem and the pump turned on and bust a fitting. I think that is now the 5th problem we've had, I'm hoping for no more!

We travelled along the highway sometimes stopping in time for the cache sometimes not as our attention was elsewhere. Workmen were at one GZ. Then as time went on we skipped a few.

A quick find here. We saw a few of these towers on our trip.

TFTC

Great to learn about these water towers,
Like the tea theme. This took a little while to find.
Log book is wet.
TFTC

TFTC Stoffel28/Germany 05-11-22
Way to Broken Hill

Thank quick stretch of legs

Headed in a different direction for the weekend with Purrfect Di. Saw some sights, took some pictures, spotted your cache!

Love to see these reminders of more romantic times on the railroads. We've lost so much with the demise of the SAR network, but a cup of tea goes a long way.

Thanks farmer--brown for locating and maintaining this cache on our ever growing Aussie geo-map


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Hiking and driving around wherever we can - searching, spotting strange items and signing cache logs using some or all of the resources of GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife), Whereyougo, Garmin Montana 750i, Montana 680t, Etrex 35, Samsung S21u, Samsung S9, with Geocaching App, c:Geo, or Geooh Go, and Android Auto and other maps... or often with just a guyess or plain old dumb luck
Plenty of the luck stuff actually !!!

*All the online logs are composed and published with GSAK of course.*


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Danger! Caching is a very hazardous activity!
Look out for sand, mud, floodwaters, snakes, surprise cliffs, roos, wombats, things falling from trees, bulldust, and floods, and try not to get tetanus from rusty mint tins and don't fall off your ladder...
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- and do watch out for bugs !!! . [xx(]

Make Travel Bugs the Only bugs you share and pass on (Covid cancels caching!)
Keep a safe distance - cache the countryside


Heaps good of all those placing quality caches out and about around the country areas,
in sensible safe places especially! - it keeps our game fun, and interesting

Much appreciate you reading all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, apparently! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and we can put an end to these long logs !!!




C'est Fini.
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Nice spot, plenty of roadworks and creepy crawlers.

Found it but didn’t want to fight the red backs for it

Yes was the answer , we did have a coffee instead ,plus signed the log,
Thanks again farmer-brown.

Found with Dozenmater,,TFTC

TFTC - found with rainygirl74. Log very wet

Great hiding

Took us awhile to find it. Thank you

TFTC! Getting close to my 100th Find

Fun, adventure, travel, history, geology, mental stimulation, social gatherings, support and friendship are just some of the elements of geocaching.

Out and about enjoying the opportunity to grab a few caches, yours being one of those I targeted on my journey today. Thanks ??

Thanks farmer--brown (F=1867 H=63) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Can't say that we were too happy when we could see what we were going to have to search. We got out with torches and checked everywhere. Didn't seem like we were going to make the find when Micaparamedic came up the goods. Pleased that there were no muggles as it did take us some time. Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

We are making our way to the Townsville Mega with geoturtle 37 , Papi4056 and micaparamedic where possible using adventure labs as our guide as we all enjoy them.

Heading to Broken Hill to grab the lab there after a slight change of plans we couldn't help but to do a quick detour to find this one.

It would have been great to live back in this era and just see how relaxed travel must have been with the steam engines needing to stop regularly at these features. Those days have long gone with non stop luxury travel anywhere in the world and these things are a reminder of a past time.
We pulled up here happy that no-one else was around as it took us quite awhile to locate the cache. We broadened our search, got a torch peering into each nook and cranny then micaparamedic called out "Is this what you are looking for" . We are glad to say that the log book now contains all our names.

Many thanks farmer-brown for the break in the drive

Quick easy find tftc

On the road again, catching up with a few logs as we travel.
TFTC

Nice stop. Didn't take too long to find. Amazing, within a couple of minutes of searching a truck pulls in.
On my way to WA
TFTC

Morning Tea for anyone as the train roles by - awesome

Cheers for the cache

Cheers for the cache

Found. Log was very wet from yesterday's rain. TFTC.

TFTC

Cleaned the water oyt of container and replaced the waterlogged paper so people can sign away... TFTC

A quick find and we are on our way again. Thanks

Took Longer than it should have! TFTC

Tftc Tnln

Found it TFTC. Log replaced. Cache all good

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Farmer Brown [^]

TFTC cup of tea would have been nice

On our way to Broken Hill. Love these old railway relics. Thanks for the hide farmer brown.

THANKS ️

1 of 10. Front is good.

On our way from Peterborough to Broken Hill and stopped for a quick cuppa. Easy find. Thanks for the cache.

Dropped in for a cuppa. Sad to see the damage down here by others. We do love the old advertising you can see on water towers so we knew where you were taking us, before we arrived.
TFTC farmer--brown.

Gefunfen

Quick drive by, glad to stop and stretch our legs

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Now we have to cope with Corona Virus ..... and social distancing

Caching at least keeps us sane in a time of social distancing - when it is suitable.

We are now trying to get back to our home state (Queensland) and stopped today to pick up a few remote caches on the highway.

Stopped here for another cuppa tea, we previously Found in July 19, but the spot we found it was empty today. Had a good look around to see if cache creep was happening

Quick find on the way home from Broken Hill
TFTC

Found It!
This one took me quite a bit longer to find than it ever should have. And I have no idea why. Eventually I just saw it and there it was...
TFTC

TFTC Farmer Brown. Day tripping from Broken Hill to Peterborough. Happy Australia Day holiday!

Nice find, bit tricky getting the paper out of the bottle

TFTC!

Came and got yanked ontea TFTC

Another pick on our way from BH to Yunta and heading home to WA. TFTC. SL.

With GreyHams we set out on a new adventure, driving from Adelaide to Sydney via broken Hill and Bourke... with side trips in all directions as the caches lead us. Four days with a number of target caches along the way, although shires, oldies and virtuals were our priority with many others of interest too.

From the lush green of South Australia into the dry outback of NSW, contrast, scenic and interesting. With GreyHams trip planning we traveled along easily as he drove and navigated and chattered! Never a dull moment through the stark and barren land which was completely fascinating.

So many odd locations to be seen, as well as emus, kangaroos, birds, a desert horse and so many teeny tiny little goats! So many goats... I did love those goats! The dry and barren made way for more substantial lands as we drove closer towards the end of the trip, the trees returned, the hills and finally those little goats... Yay!

About 2500km, 29 shires, 4 virtuals, a number of oldies and some nice walks and places visited along the way. The locals and little towns memorable, the lands and rivers dry and sad but a great trip as we traveled along from cache to cache.

Thanks for your cache to help guide us through our travels, apologies for the generic log, If I had more to add its below this.

With the crazy middle of the road driving road train baring down on us this was quickly found. Log was wet from last nights rain but just got a signature carefully on, a few photos then off before he overtakes us and tries to kill us again! Cool spot to add to the many others we have seen.

Aquilus1 and I have long been looking at our Project-GC maps and trying to 'finish' NSW, which is our closest real state (we both completed the ACT on our first ever finds). Of course we rarely have long term plans, the best trips just sort of happen without too much notice, but we had been thinking about this trip since halfway through the last one.

This plan was to go from Adelaide to Canberra, via the 'hard to reach' counties at the north/north-west of NSW that we had missed last time. Some research showed flights to Adelaide were cheap (well, using points) but also well timed. Arriving at the start point at 7.30am means you are away with a full days caching in front of you. What really sealed it was the one-way car hire deals from Adelaide to Sydney/Melbourne. Sure, this means we have to catch the bus from Sydney airport, but saving $800 sure has a sweet taste.

Day 1:
After landing in ADL airport we made a swift start grabbing the virtual there, I do so love an airport virtual. From there it was all about Oldies and Counties with a couple of Large caches thrown in for bonus value.... got to love a Large! Soooo many counties in Adelaide, and we grabbed as many as we could without detouring massively... we had a long way to go in 4 days after all. I did quite like the grid layout of Adelaide, it means if you encounter roads that are blocked it was easy to reroute. It was slow going in Adelaide (city caching is always slow) but we eventually made our way out and got to the highway. Almost missed Gawler as we were too busy chatting away, it would have left a large hole in our county maps The Clare valley has such an amount of caches and a bunch of oldies, so it took a bit of time to get through as well. So, so green up this way, it was a pleasant surprise for me. The original plan was to get all the way to Broken Hill today but with so many counties and oldies we only got as far as Peterborough, in the dark amid pouring rain.... and got the last 2 rooms in the last motel in town...close call. This was 'proper' small town and we had dinner at the hotel, as it was the only place open.

Day 2:
OK, we have some time to make up as we are 3 hours down the road from where we though we would be starting this day...luckily my alarm was gentle and right on time. Wow, the countryside looks so, so different to yesterday. Now is proper outback and by the time we got to Yunta it was almost desert, really dramatic stuff, but still populated with the odd random goat. We got to Broken Hill and prioritised the highlights: the mine shaft and the big chair.... the HJ's was a fine lunch as well. From there we left and continued across the scrub of western NSW, through Wilcannia, into Cobar with goats galore in between and finally to Bourke, once again in the dark and rain. Bourke was our original destination for Day 2 and we surprised ourselves at making it this far. Again we got the last 2 rooms in the last motel in town.... and we tried 4!! Really riding our luck.

Day 3:
OK, next services are in Brewarinna which is 180km away, we have fuel for 200... so off we drive into the desert without a second thought. Yep, smart thinking! We did make it of course but it was a close run thing. Rivers out here were very sad to see... mostly just sand with water here and there.... but not much. Bogan river was non-existant, the Barwon a set of pools with nothing in between. We went through Walgett, less said the better. Through Gilgandra on a private new road ending at Mudgee. Motel had heaps of rooms for once!

Day 4:
Last day and all about getting to the airport through the blue mountains grabbing counties on the way. After dropping off the car we ran to the bus where it was waiting and managed to convince the driver to let us on, while I was buying tickets over the phone... all worked out in the end, but yet another example of our fine luck on the trip.

2500 km's, 29 shires grabbed!

Travelling the highway towards home with ilook4geo as well. Picking up some caches that we have not done before in previous trips along this road. There are not a lot to be done, but enough to break the journey.
Thank you to farmer--brown for placing this cache, which we found without any problem once we trusted the geo instinct and ignored the GPS.

Out doing some caching along the highway with goingplaces2 as we head east. All found caches had their log signed before being replaced as found. Thanks to the CO for placing this cache.

TFTC NICE CUPPA

TFTC

Quick find TFTC

Marginally challenged for a moment, found it. TFTC

We found it!!! Our first one

Found it today on the way to broken hill - kids loved it

I was on a collect and return run from Snowtown to Broken Hill, my brother had broken ( no pun intended)down in Broken Hill and needed a ride home so I thought I may as well go get him. This was my fist stop on my journey, an easy find and all is good,tftc

Another full log. Another replaced log. Tftc.

Quick find

Nomads travelling in their caravan around Australia. We have been on the road since July 2011 and discovered caching in August 2013. We travel with a bunch of travel bugs belonging to our sons and grand children. Where ever possible, we will maintain your cache as we travel.

Today, we travelled from Broken Hill (NSW) to Yunta (SA) along the Barrier Highway. This cache was on the way, and we were able to pull off the road with our caravan.

Coffee and cache time. Nice cappuccino made in our van. Wrong time of day for a cuppa tea, but we did find the cache, and replaced the broken container, added new log book and pencil. Thanks for the hide farmer brown.

My grandma used to drink that tea. It may be the reason I would not drink tea until I was 30 and discovered the Twinnings products.

Easter 2020 sees SA hosting the next Easter big event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

Thanks